To Kill a Mockingbird

Tom Robinson and Boo Radley, Maycomb’s Mockingbirds In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the two characters Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are much like the Mockingbird, harmless yet destroyed. Boo and Tom were such sad characters that they kept to themselves and shied from the public eye. The townspeople of Maycomb caused them to become outsiders because of their lifestyles which did not revolve around the towns stereotypes. Boo Radley …

…they lived their lives, nobody really gave them a chance. Scout discovered this about Boo Radley in the end, “he was real nice,” (281) because she, unlike most characters, gave him a chance. Like Atticus said, “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (90). Sadly, this didn’t stop the people of Maycomb from doing so. Bibliography To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee